Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Here's Johnny

John Lydon was interviewed on 6Music
a couple of weeks ago and he was everything
you always hope he'll be - witty, sharp, wry,
knowing, mischievous, entertaining. Perhaps
it was the questions he was asked or the mood
he was in, but there was no trace of the
narky bitterness that sometimes creeps into
his conversations. I'm not sure that the
latest LP, 'What the World Needs Now...', is
quite as strong as 2012's comeback album,
'This Is PIL', but it does include what I
reckon is Lydon's best 3½ minutes in over 25
years.

4 comments:

I wish I could say I liked the song but I'm sorry, it isn't working for me... just one of those things.. maybe I've just had enough of certain vocal inflections, I dunno! Thank you for the opportunity to hear it though - and I'm curious to see how he will come across on Piers Morgan's Life Stories on Friday too - always good value for money no matter what.

I've been enjoying hearing 'Trouble' every now and then on Radio 6, which is a nice kick up the bum. This one, for me, not so much. I suppose I still expect PIL to be all avant-garde and Can-like, which makes me a few decades behind the times, I suppose. What does John still have to be so pissed-off about? He's on Piers Morgan? Could be interesting but that would mean having to sit through that odious bugger as well.

I don't know why, but I find this particular song oddly touching - perhaps because of the person who's singing it! It's been a long, long time since the fantastic 'Metal Box' and quite a long while since 'Album', the last LP I really rated by PIL. I've just liked the odd song since then.